<p>People still use hotmail? Seriously, this should prompt you to switch to gmail once and for all.</p>
<p>I got rejected.
Oh well eff Harvard I got into UChicago so that’s where I’ll be headed.
Sad about getting waitlisted at UPenn though.</p>
<p>i got into yale and princeton,
but waitlisted at harvard… =[</p>
<p>i can’t even be happy right now because i wanted harvard so badly.</p>
<p>ACCEPTED!!! I like how harvard didn’t just pick people in the 2300-2400 sat range with intel/seimens, etc but truly picked people with varied backgrounds/interests (who wants to go to a school where everyone is the same?), and there definitely seems to be diversity in the people accepted even in just this forum. I can’t believe i got into harvard but got rejected from cornell and upenn or that brown waitlisted me. it’s all so so random.</p>
<p>harvard or princeton for a future in business? medicine? law? having an awesome life?</p>
<p>urm with 2090 and no special ec’s admitted round these neck of the woods. I don’t mean nothing bad on her, I have a very high opinion of her, but at what point do you say its kind of absurd</p>
<p>^OMG. Can you honestly say that person was not qualified? Affirmative action may help a little but it’s not going to help someone who is not qualified to get in. Getting into Harvard is more than numbers. Trust me when I say I know plenty of URMs (to be fair, I only know URMs) who affirmative action did not help and were rejected or waitlisted. I’m pretty sure Harvard knows what it is doing when it builds its class.</p>
<p>Is it fair that the person happened to be born that color and gets an extra boost because of it? No.
Is it fair that men tend to make more money than women for the same job? No. </p>
<p>It’s life. You learn to deal with it. Yes, the URM gets the advantage when it comes to getting accepted into college, but that’s where it ends. </p>
<p>I will admit though that the Asians get the worst part of the deal and have every right to complain. It is extremely difficult for them to get into top schools, while earning less than whites with the same degree, and also facing discrimination.</p>
<p>URM with 1870 and a kid got in… lol…</p>
<p>Having a kid, applying to college, taking the SAT, attending high school, getting acceptable grades, and getting Harvard is NOT easy.</p>
<p>I’m sure there was something on the application besides the fact that he/she was an URM.</p>
<p>MeSsIaH, I think that has more to do with the person’s circumstances than with affirmative action. There are URMs with better scores that have been rejected. But congrats to that person. I’m sure it must have been hard for him/her with a kid.</p>
<p>^The silver lining is that the cute kid might be raised on Harvard Square ;]</p>
<p>Accepted!!i finally got the email (…late)@thoss91,i know,it is funny,i always thought that harvard would be the hardest to get into,but brown said no to me! 
oh wel,i’m not complaining,i’ve wanted harvard since forever ago!! :-)</p>
<p>A guy with a senators recommenation was waitlisted
just speechless</p>
<p>^ I know. I was stunned when I read that too…</p>
<p>I’m glad that happened. I hate cronyism. Who cares if he knows a senator???he’s not a senator! He prob only met him through his parents anyways</p>
<p>yes that has to be considered to, the sentator was probably his mom, or dad</p>
<p>I know a (former/running now and will likely win/prominent anyway) congressman’s son who got into Yale SCEA, along with two other kids at his school (!). But he had really good stats, and is a very nice guy, who thought it was funny when we vandalized his father’s Wiki article a little.</p>
<p>“Who cares if he knows a senator?”</p>
<p>Definitely not Harvard. This kind of recommendation is meaningless unless the senator supervised the student on some kind of serious project, and is writing the kind of letter that a coach or music teacher would write.</p>
<p>Hey is everyone talking about me with the Senator’s recommendation? Personally, I thought it was more surprising that I got rejected as a Senate Page. Harvard loves Senate Pages (they even do like a special award for every Page class) so I thought it could definitely get me in. Its the Page program–more importantly the Page School–and recommendation from it that really helps. I have one Page friend (who I’m sure got a rec from his Senator from MO) who did get into Harvard, and another who didn’t (without the same grades as us, and without a letter from his Senator).</p>
<p>But I’m pretty happy regardless Yale was my #1 anyways. I didn’t become a Page to get into Harvard, so whatever, right?</p>
<p>EDIT: The job was sort of under the Supervision of the Senators office, @Hanna</p>
<p>how much weight is put on the essays?</p>
<p>and for harvard, how many essays do you have to write to them?</p>